Sharon L. Mullen
The preceding history of the West African mask, its functions, and forms will be applied to the following classroom activities, and lesson plans. Through classroom discussion this information will lead to imaginative creations of details on their masks and reasons for those details being there.
Among the following list you have additional topics of mask functions that students will find interesting to use in creating their individual mask:
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Averting disasters.
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Welcoming visitors.
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Casting spells.
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Warnings about fire.
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Hunting animals.
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Healing, Exorcism and fighting sorcerers.
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Enforcing law.
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Judging disputes.
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Providing protective amulets.
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Providing social control and well being.
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This list numbers 110 can offer the students ideas as to what facial forms could be used in these various tribal functions.
